French

Epinards a la Creme (Creamed Spinach)

Name: Epinards a la Creme (Creamed Spinach)
Total time: 20 min
Yield: 4 servings
Cuisine: French
Ingredients: 1 lb fresh spinach; 1/2 cup heavy cream; 2 tbsp butter; 1 garlic clove, minced; 1 pinch ground nutmeg; 1/2 tsp salt; 1/4 tsp black pepper

Amelie @amelie_nantes

Epinards a la Creme (Creamed Spinach) is French home cooking, eaten at lunch and dinner. On the plate it is the cooked vegetable. Below is what usually sits beside it, what it does and does not contain, and what else to cook once you have made it.

20 min Easy Heart healthy High fiber Vegetarian Pescatarian Gluten free

Ingredients

Serves

The quantities follow this count.

1 lb fresh spinach
1/2 cup heavy cream
2 tbsp butter
1 garlic clove, minced
1 pinch ground nutmeg
1/2 tsp salt
1/4 tsp black pepper

How to cook it

Melt the butter in a wide pan and cook the garlic over low heat for 1 minute, until fragrant.
Add the spinach in batches, stirring until each addition wilts down before adding the next, about 5 minutes total.
Pour in the cream and the nutmeg, and simmer for 3 to 4 minutes, until the spinach is glossy and coated.
Season with the salt and pepper and serve warm; there is no spinach dish elsewhere in the French catalog, and this is what sits beside a fish fillet or a steak.

Watch how to cook Epinards a la Creme (Creamed Spinach)

Someone making it start to finish, so you can see what the steps look like.

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Serve it with

A French dinner is a plate rather than a single dish. These are the courses that normally sit beside Epinards a la Creme (Creamed Spinach), read from the same composition Dinejot builds a real meal from.

The dish at the centre
- Blanc de Poulet Grille et Haricots Verts (Grilled Chicken Breast with Green Beans)
  
  25 min
Something cool and fresh
- Betteraves Vinaigrette (Beetroot with Mustard Vinaigrette)
  
  15 min

Safe at your table

Dinejot tracks ten allergens and tags every one of them by hand, so the absences below are as deliberate as the presences. Epinards a la Creme (Creamed Spinach) carries dairy. It is free of the remaining 9 allergens on that list.

Every tracked allergen in Epinards a la Creme (Creamed Spinach)
Allergen	In this dish	Cook this instead
Peanuts	No
Tree nuts	No
Dairy	Yes	Aubergines au Four (Roasted Aubergine with Thyme and Garlic)
Gluten	No
Shellfish	No
Eggs	No
Soy	No
Fish	No
Sesame	No
Coconut	No

These tags are set by a person rather than inferred from an ingredient list, and they describe the recipe as written here. Read the labels on whatever you actually buy.

What it brings to the plate

Estimated, per serving

Calories: 190 kcal
Protein: 4 g
Carbs: 5 g
Fat: 17 g
Fiber: 3 g
Sugar: 1 g
Sodium: 300 mg
Saturated fat: 11 g

Estimated values. Actual nutrition varies with ingredients, brands, and how you cook.

When to cook it

Epinards a la Creme (Creamed Spinach) takes about 20 minutes from a cold stove to the table, and the cooking itself is easy going. It is eaten at lunch and dinner. Nothing in the calendar rules it out, so it is a year round dish.